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A FOUR-CASE INRO Signed Kobayashi Yasuaki , Edo Period (after 1813) Gold lacquer ground; decoration in togidashi sumi-e [ togidashi-e imitating ink painting]; compartments and risers gold nashiji ; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Ko-Hogen ga Tsunehide kore o utsusu [copied by Tsunehide from a painting by Ko- Hogen (Aishin)] and Yanagawa no ju Kobayashi Yasuaki sei [made by Kobayashi Yasuaki of Yanagawa]; ivory ojime with a butterfly and branch in coral, shell, tortoiseshell and lacquer; 18th-century ivory netsuke as a sleeping sarumawashi [monkey-trainer] with his monkey stealing from his basket A sarumawashi [monkey showman] on one side watched by a peasant family on the reverse, the whole design in the style of the Kano dynasty of official painters 31/8in. (8cm.) high